Between 2006 and 2017, North Korea conducted six underground nuclear tests at its vast testing site at Mount Mantap in North ...

Study suggests nuclear testing fundamentally altered the region’s tectonic landscape, making earthquakes stronger and more frequent for years afterwards ...

During the Cold War, the United States carried out terrifying classified experiments involving nuclear explosions in space, triggering one of the most dangerous military operations in human history.

On August 6, 1945 — 81 years ago — the US bomber Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in military combat on the ...

During the Cold War, the United States and Soviet Union often tested nuclear weapons by simply detonating them in remote places and taking notes. Numerous islands were obliterated in the process, most ...

The United States became a victim of terrorism on a grand scale when a powerful bomb exploded in the World Trade Center in New York City in February, 1993. This event, however, was only a precursor to ...

Nuclear winter refers to extreme global cooling that can occur after large-scale nuclear war. Firestorms from detonations loft hundreds of millions of tons of soot into the stratosphere, blocking ...

Whilst calculating the precise likelihood of nuclear war remains complicated and unpredictable, rising global tensions have heightened that danger. Although numerous countries are working together to ...